Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1887-07-28
OCEAN GROVE.
Notes at This Famous Resort.
Regular Correspondence.
OCEAN GROVE, July 90, 'S7.


in the history of Ocean Grove will
soon be at it's height. This place is
particularly interesting to Bridgeton
people, and has been and is the Sum-
mer home of many of them. That
city is we'll represented here at pres
ent. The familiar faces of Jacob and
William Moore are seen at the pretty
cottage of the elder Mr.. Moore. Mr..
Enoch Hanthorn has opened his
house for the remainder of the season,
and his family is nicely fixed away.
He himself comes down on Saturday
and spends Sunday, returning to
Bridgeton on Monday. Mr.. s. M.
Bassett and family are quietly living
in their tented home. Many other
Bridgetonians who are not just now
recalled to mind, find here Summer
abode, which for moral pleasure and
solid comfort is unsurpassed.
1t is quite doubtful if in the whole
of New Jersey there is another place
given up so entirely to the advance
ment and moral welfare of man. Not
a sinful amusement or place of i'll re-
pute is allowed within it's borders,
consequently the sinful do not tarry
long. No wonder that the better class
of people so much admire this beau
tiful place.
The Ocean of late has been in a per-
feet state for Summer bathing and the
great surf has been buffeted by thous-
ands of people. Those in the habit of
visiting other resorts will notice when
here that there is vast amount of
difference in the style of the bathing
dress worn by the ladies. Here every
sense of modern decency is not out
ragged, nor the custom of the old Puri-
tan style, but g happy medium which
is strikingly pleasing to the eye. In
fact the custom of dress at Ocean
Grove has gone far to make itself the
popular resort. A lady need carry but
one trunk and yet move in frst-class
circles here. The fashion is for COM
fort and that alone. Two dresses are
quite sufficient for the finest lady in
the Grove, if she chooses to limit her
self to that. In this manner the ladies
are allowed comfort and still look frlly
as well as the most stylish dressed
ladies of Long Branch.
The much talked of colored line in
this place or Asbury Park has not
been drawn nearly so fine as the
metropolitan press have desired to
draw it. Yesterday large colored ex-
cursion came here and was met by the
managers of both places with the ut
most cordiality and made to feel per-
fectly welcome. There were five or six
hundred of them and none of them
complained but that they received the
best of treatment from all concerned.
They were allowed the freedom of the
city as much as any excursion party
that ever visited either of these places.
They paraded the beach in large num-
bers and many of them took a dip in
the ocean wave. They expressed them
selves as being highly delighted and
too much praise could not be bestowed
upon the place or its managers.
The senseless love-making which for
years has been in progress on the
beach at Asbury, has been pretty much
entirely broken up, and it would be
good idea if the spooning couples who
sit under large parasol and squeeze
each others hands were compelled to
move along on our beach. The sight
is disgusting and should be immediate
ly broken up.
The great annual camp meeting will
soon be in session. Then look out for
the crowds. The hotels and cottages
will be crowded far beyond their ca
pacity. Many of the hotel men are
obliged to decline to receive guests who
are telegraphing for rooms during the
camp meeting. From present pros
poets the place will be crowded as it
has never been before.
The Y. NJ. G. A., of Bridgeton, it is
said, has made arrangements to make
a two-days excursion here some time
during the last of the season. 1t will
be delightful trip. H.
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